National Endowment for the Arts Announces First Round of Fiscal Year 2023 Grants
 

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Roy Spight demonstrates African American drum making at Fort Benjamin Harrison State Park. An NEA grant to Trustees of Indiana University in Bloomington on behalf of Traditional Arts Indiana will support folk arts programs focused on serving older adults. Photo courtesy of Traditional Arts Indiana

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is pleased to announce the first round of recommended awards for fiscal year 2023, with more than $34 million in funding to support the arts nationwide.

National Endowment for the Arts Announces Ascala Tsegaye Sisk as Senior Deputy Chair

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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is pleased to announce that Ascala Tsegaye Sisk has been appointed as senior deputy chair.

Smithsonian’s Tsione Wolde-Michael Tapped to Lead President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
 

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Tsione Wolde-Michael, executive director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH)

Tsione Wolde-Michael has been named Executive Director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH).

NEA 2023 Grant Opportunities Now Available

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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is pleased to announce that grant guidelines and application materials are now available for Challenge America and Grants for Arts Projects (GAP). These grants to organizations support specific projects in any part of the nation’s 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. jurisdictions.

Applications Open for Creative Forces Community Engagement Grants

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First Veteran Artist-in-Residence Mark Oldland and Frontline Arts Paper Program Manager Ron Erickson pulling oversized 30”x40” sheets of Mark’s USCG Dress Blue uniform "Trop" Shirts rag pulp in the parking lot at Frontline Arts in Branchburg, NJ. These sheets will be used for a freeform pulp spray triptych piece called “Bering Sea Puddle Jump.” Mark was an E-5 2nd Class Petty Officer in the US Coast Guard. Ron was a L/Cpl. E-3 in the Marines. Photo by James Teichman 

Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant applications now open to support arts programming for military-connected individuals

Celebrate the 2022 NEA National Heritage Fellows in a Documentary Film
 

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Roots of American Culture: A Cross-Country Visit with Living Treasures of the Folk and Traditional Arts will premiere Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 8pm ET on arts.gov.

Meeting of the National Council on the Arts on October 28, 2022, in Washington, DC

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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will host the public session of the 208th National Council on the Arts meeting on Friday, October 28, 2022, at 9:30 a.m. ET.

Applications Now Open for NEA Big Read Grants

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Applications are now open for grants to support NEA Big Read projects between September 2023 and June 2024. An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read supports community reading programs each designed around a single NEA Big Read book selection with the goal of inspiring meaningful conversations, artistic responses, and new discoveries and connections in each community.

Statement by National Endowment for the Arts Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD on National Disability Employment Awareness Month 

Statement by National Endowment for the Arts Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, Ph.D. on National Disability Employment Awareness Month

President Biden Issues Proclamation on National Arts and Humanities Month, Includes Executive Order to Promote the Arts, the Humanities, and Museum and Library Services

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President Joseph R. Biden issued a proclamation today designating October 2022 as National Arts and Humanities Month. In the proclamation, the President announced a new Executive Order that advances a whole-of-government policy for the arts, the humanities, and museum and library services, including the re-establishment of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) “to inform and support the national engagement with Americans necessary to advance the arts, the humanities, and museum and library services.”
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